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Title: Floral gems for 1896
Identifier: CAT31282331 (find matches)
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: McGregor Brothers; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Roses Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Ohio Springfield; Flowers; Bulbs (Plants); Roses; Plants, Ornamental; Commercial catalogs
Publisher: Springfield, Ohio : McGregor Bros
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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McGregor Brothers, Florists, Springfield, Ohio. 53 STANDARD LIST ... OF THE Hewer French Cannas AT PRICES NOTED. Antoine Chantin—A most distinct and vigorous growing variety, with bright green foliage, with very large flowers of a bright orange-scarlet overlaid with crimson. Price, 15 cents each. Admiral Courbet—Plant very vigorous; foliage, green and produced in profusion. Flowers very large; beautiful citron yellow, striped with flame. Price, 15 cents each. Alphonse Bouvier—This is the grandest of all Cannas for out door bedding. It is a very luxuriant grower in good ground. It begins to bloom very early and is one continuous mass of crimson the entire season. The tips of the shoots are surmounted by immense clusters of bright crimson flowers of the very largest size, and nothing can excel their brilliancy. Price, 15 cents each. Capt. P. de Suzzoni—Extremely showy; flower large and composed of overlapping petals of great size; color, clear yellow, dotted with orange-yellow; the finest of the Gladiolus flowered varieties in yellow. Price, 15 cents each. Durhesse de nortemarte—A vigorous grower, with large leaves, throwing up numerous flower stalks; flowers large and round, composed of large, round petals; color, yellow, very bright, lightly dotted carmine. Extremely fine. Price, 15 cents each. Emtle Leclere—A strong grower; height, about three feet; foliage green; numerous flower stalks; of medium height; flower, golden-yellow, mottled and spotted crimson and scarlet. Price, 15 cents each. Ehemanni—The most distinct of all the Cannas on account of its large, oval Musa Enseta-like soft green leaves, which place it foremost among decorative foliage plants. Its most striking feature is the carmine-red flowers produced on stems of great length that unfold about twelve flowers to each of the smaller branches. These flowers are as large as a Gladiolus, producing splendid effects on the lawn. As a specimen plant for grandeur and beauty, it stands without a rival. It grows as freely as the common Can- nas, and is an object of great beauty until frost, the foliage closely resembling that of a large, luxuriant Banana. Price, 25 cents each. Hiss Sarah Hill—Very dwarf, handsome light green foliage, numerous, strong, compact flower stalks, flowers large, petals well rounded, superb amaranth carmine. Price, 15 cents eacn. Paul Harquard—The individual flowers are large, and the flower spike very large, each flower standing out separately by itself. The flower is as fine as the finest orchid. The color is very bard to describe, to give any adequate idea of how beautiful a shade it is. It might be described as a bright salmon, with a carmine tint. Price, 15 cents each. Statutaire Fulconsis—As fine a variety in its color of soft, bright, cardinal-red, as is Madame Crozyamong the orange-scarlets; the truss is enormous, composed of quantities of flowers- spikes freely produced; a magnificent grower; produces a mass of brilliant red. Price, 1 5 cents. THE GILT-EDGED CAN N A, <^MADAME CROZY. Undoubtedly the grandest of all varieties. The color is a brilliant vermillion-searlet, bordered with deep golden yellow; the flowers are borne in great clusters, and in such prof usion that they crown the plant with a blaze of glowing color The foliage is vivid green, broad and massive: the habit of the plant is compact and vigorous its natural height being rarely more than four feet, but the flowers form when it is scarcely a foot high, and continue coming on the plant until frost. Price, 15 cents each. Four Choice Cannas, Large Flowered, of Special Merit. Price, 20 cents each, or the four for 75 cents. Charles Henderson—Glowing crimson color, but of dwarf habit, growing about three feet in height, and bearing its im- mense, compact heads of bloom erect, and well above the foliage. The form of the flowers is very fine indeed, well opened and of good substance, standing the sun well. It is as good a bedder as Bouvier, and is also adapted to pot culture by its dwarf habit; in fact there is hardly its equal to be found for this purpose. Price, 20 cents. Cronstadt—A purple leaved variety of great beauty. The foliage is very fine indeed, and the flowers are of the largest size, with well-rounded petals that are scarcely exceeded by any Cannain width, while the color is one of the most distinct and unusual in the whole list. It is a peculiar color, very different from any other sort—a nankeen orange, or old gold, beautifully penciled lengthwise with soft carmine. Price, 20 cents. Florence Vaughan—Conceded by all who have seen it to be the finest yellow spotted Canna. Flowers very large, of the most perfect form, with broad overlapping petals, nicely rounded at the ends. Color, brilliant yellow, spotted with bright red. A strong, robust grower, and flowers very freely. Price, 20 cents. Egandale—Without the least hesitation we pronounce this the best of all dark leaved Cannas for bedding that has yet come under our notice. The foliage is good, the habit sturdy, are of good size, and borne in compact heads, and in such profusion that a bed of them is a perfect mass of color unequaled by any other 6ort. The color ia a deep currant red, of a peculiar and very pleasing shade, and different from any other. Price, 20 cents.
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